Surrounded by Setbacks

Or, How to Succeed When Everything's Gone Bad

De: Thomas Erikson

Narrado por: James Macnaughton

Brought to you by Penguin.

How to handle everything (and everyone) around you when all hell breaks loose, from the international best-selling author of Surrounded by Idiots.

Not everything goes the way we want it to - the world or people around us sometimes just spin out of control. Just consider the COVID pandemic for starters. Or how about that mad neighbour you have living next door to you? Or when work seems to be going down the toilet when the competition keep outsmarting you? So how do you handle everything life throws your way when you'd really prefer to tell everyone to get stuffed?

Thomas Erikson will help you turn adversity into success with the help of the behavioural model made famous in Surrounded by Idiots. Starting by reminding us that life is as it is, Erikson helps you see that it is in fact useless to try to control everything happening around you. Instead of protesting when life throws you curveballs, focus instead on how to handle them. Just as you keep the weeds away from the garden to provide space and amazing flowers, you need to find an approach to adversity that works for you and will give you the chance to turn everything into success. Surrounded by Setbacks will help you pinpoint the approach that works for you and will entertain and empower you in equal measure.

©2021 Thomas Erikson (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Repetitive and useless

The author endlessly promotes himself as a good example of facing adversity and constantly repeats the disc theory (4 colours of personalities). I don't relate much to his one-sided views and the repeated forceful interpretation of every setback being an opportunity, and if you can not make it, it's because of your own incompetence. Because adversity does not exist, bad things do not happen, it's just you making excuses for not making every shitty thing into opportunity. He even makes an example of someone's mother dying as a great opportunity to work on the relationship with her father. Seriously?!